Axel Kammholz

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Axel Kammholz (born March 15, 1937 in Berlin ; † August 10, 2017 ) was a German politician ( FDP ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1955, Kammholz initially completed a commercial apprenticeship at Siemens from 1956 to 1959 . He then started studying economics and journalism at the Free University of Berlin , which he completed in 1963 with an examination as a graduate economist. He then worked at the Federal Cartel Office, where he was most recently department head.

Kammholz joined the FDP in 1963 and was chairman of the Berlin State Association of German Young Democrats from 1968 to 1969 . He was chairman of the competition working group in the FDP Federal Committee on Economics and Consumers and a member of the state board of the FDP Berlin .

From 1971 to 1975 he was a member of the Steglitz district council assembly . From 1985 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . He was elected from the Steglitz district list. In the House of Representatives he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group from 1991 to 1994, which he chaired until the end of the legislative period after Carola von Braun's political withdrawal . When he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1995 , he stood as the top candidate of his party. However, the FDP failed in the state elections because of the threshold clause and missed re-entry into parliament with 2.5% of the vote.

After his candidacy in the Bundestag election in 1998 in the Bundestag constituency Berlin-Steglitz - Zehlendorf was also unsuccessful, Kammholz withdrew from political life.

Axel Kammholz was with Gisela Kammholz, geb. Neumann, married and had three grown children.

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 198.
  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 46th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2007, p. 638.
  • People's Handbook of the House of Representatives, 12th electoral term, 1991–1996. Verlag Gebr. Holzapfel, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-921226-39-2 , p. 47.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for Axel Kammholz . Press release FDP Berlin, August 15, 2017, accessed on August 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ Dagmar von Bracht: Axel Kammholz top candidate for Berlin's Liberals. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 23, 1995. Retrieved April 17, 2016 .
  3. ↑ What became of ... the candidates in the last federal election? In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 1, 2002, accessed April 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kammholz, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2017